"¡No es boda! This is not a wedding!" was a statement I heard from my Mom whenever we wanted more food. Which may have been at every meal in my case. I did not quite understand this statement until I attended a wedding at my uncle and aunt's farm for one of their daughters. Until that point most Mexican American wedding in the Methodist Church had copied the tradition of cake and mints, and if we were lucky, peanuts. But that wedding at the farm was quite the spread. Rows of tables loaded with food, and we're not talking everyday food, this was a feast with things that we did not see that often. It was part of the celebration that started at the church and continued on until the end of that night.
The psalmist knew celebrations of this nature and he knew the nature of God's love towards us. This modern version of the scripture paints the psalmist's description of God's love as "meteoric," God's loyalty as "astronomic", God's purpose as "titanic," and God's verdicts as "oceanic," in other words, gi-normous! Yet, the psalmist knew, that no one nor anything gets lost in the largeness of God. Nothing gets past God. He understood God's love to be that sheltering protection of a mother bird's wings, and to sit at such a wedding banquet of food and celebration, with the drink being straight from God's provision, "Eden spring waters." God is a "fountain of cascading light," and to be in God's presence is to have our eyes open to that light and love. Our invitation to God should be that God keep "keeping on." And for us to keep our hearts as "welcoming hearts."
If you're feeling small, or unimportant or insignificant, step into God. Let the largeness of God define who and Whose you are. If you're feeling lost or without a sense of good direction, walk into God. God will show you the way. If you're feeling alone and unwanted or unloved, run to God's love. God loves you, and soon you will find those that love God will love you too! If you're feeling hungry or thirsty or even empty, sit down with God, and feast. God always provides.
PRAYER: LOVING GOD, thank You for being Who You Are. May I find in You that which I need for myself and throughout this day may I share You with those who need the same thing. I ask this in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
Prayer Request for Today: Friends, please keep those pre-ordination candidates in your prayers as today in our area, these brave men and women are coming before a Theological Writing Review Committee. It's like walking right into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, so prayers for calm, straightness of thought, clearness of vision, etc., be theirs during these tough interviews. "Many are called, few are chosen."
